• Enable colorized file listing (ls) – add “alias ls=’ls -G’” to ~/.bash_profile
• Enable colorized vim
  1. Run “sudo vi /usr/share/vim/vimrc”
  2. Add the following lines to the top:
     syntax on
filetype plugin on
set ruler


Hash Checking
Add the following lines to your “~/.bash_profiles”:
alias md5='md5 -r'
alias md5sum='md5 -r'
alias sha1sum='openssl sha1'


1. Login to your gmail (old account)
2. Goto Settings -> Import/Export
3. Export OPML file and save it
4. Goto Settings -> Folder/Tags
5. Check the box for “Your Starred Items”
6. Above that, click on “Change Sharing” and choose “Public”
7. Click “View public page” (preferrably on a new tab) and click on the “Atom Feed” icon
8. Copy the URL to the clipboard
9. Logout of your old account and login to your NEW account (works with account switching too)
10. Goto Settings -> Import/Export
11. Import the OPML file you downloaded earlier
12. Go back to Google Reader main page
13. Click on “Add a Subscriptions”
14. Paste the URL from the public page atom feed
15. You will now have a new feed for all your old starred items. Star each of them now.
16. After you star each of them, you may remove the atom feed and also delete the other feeds from your old account.

1. Use notepad.exe (if you’re unable to launch, use another computer or any file that write a text file) and write the following:
   Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\open\command]
@="\"%1\" %*"
2. Save the file as fix.reg and run it.
3. Reboot your computer

After scouring websites advising about changing the normal.dot file and still having the problem, I found another site that recommends deleting printer from the “Devices and Printers”. Before I tried that, I change the default printer to “PDFCreator” and it solves the problem. I didn’t have the time to troubleshoot it, but it maybe SNMP or network related, but documents actually prints just fine. So I’ll leave it at this for now.

Today I received notification of a new nightly available. Since ROM Manager works best with ClockworkMod recovery, I flashed it and do a full backup. When I moved to the new nightly built #34, I found that Tasker crashes all the time. So, I restored to my backup from this morning. Alas, the restore procedure always got stuck at the “Dalvik-Cache”.

I tried to do wipe cache and dalvik-cache and restart. The CM7 loaded, but all my App2SD installed apps are missing. After probing here and there, I finally decided to switch back to Amon Ra recovery, adb into the system and perform the nandroid restore manually.

Everytime nandroid try to restore the sd-ext partition, it always shows that the tar unable to create directory because the partition is mounted as read only. After forcing an rw mount and the problem persists, I finally was about to give up. Then I was thinking if it’s possibly due to the ext4 filesystem. Finally I reformat the partition using ext2, upgraded to ext3 and perform the manual restore (using tar) and it works.

Finally I got my system back to the Friday midnight backup. I flashed my new kernel and got everything back working.

So, if you find yourself unable to restore ext partition when using App2SD and ext4, try to revert back to ext3.

UPDATE: For OSX Lion you need to us the following code:
tell application "/System/Library/Frameworks/Screensaver.framework/Versions/A/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app" to activate

1. Download Blackra1n
2. Run blackra1n. If you have ASL.DLL error, make sure you copy blackra1n.exe to
   C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Apple\Apple Application Support
3. When the device reboot, pay attention to the screen. Once it get out of the restore mode, quickly unplug the data cable. If not, repeat again.

Once done, you may want to upgrade to iOS4 the right way

A lot of info that iPhone 3GS 3.1.3 with Modem Firmware 05.12.01 can only be jailbroken using spirit jailbreak and no way to upgrade to iOS4. Here’s a full unlock of iOS4 when you’re stuck at 3.1.3 spirit jailbreak.

1. Restore to default with 3.1.3 and JB using spirit
   (if can’t activate, then you can try without restore)
2. Use Cydia to install the following packages: afc2add, openSSH, MobileTerminal
3. Download Spirit2Pwn and extract
4. Get sn0wbreeze 1.5.2
5. Get 3.1.3 ipsw and 4.0 ipsw
6. Create a 3.1.3 Customer firmware using sn0wbreeze. Ignore the warning (if any) and just create the firmware. We’re not going to restore using this firmware anyway.
7. Firmware should be put on Desktop. Go to desktop and rename it to something that identify it as 3.1.3 Sn0wbreeze firmware. Also, change the extension to zip.
8. Extract the zip file
9. Connect your iPhone to your WiFi. Use SFTP and login to your iPhone. If you have no SFTP client, you can use FileZilla. Default username/password combo is: “root”/”alpine” (without the quotes)
10. Copy all the files you find in “Firmware/all_flash/all_flash.n88ap.production” (from the extracted custom firmware) to iPhone’s “/tmp”
11. Copy all the files you extracted from spirit2pwn_r2.zip to iPhone’s “/tmp”.
    NOTE: Some reports error, so you may want to make another copy of “pwn_old_boot_r2.sh” on the /tmp named “pwn_old_boot_r1.sh”
12. Once done, SSH into the phone using PuTTy or use MobileTerminal on the phone
13. Use the same credentials as the SFTP credentials. Then run the following commands:
    cd /tmp
chmod 755 pwn_old_boot_r2.sh
chmod 755 pwn_old_boot_r1.sh
./pwn_old_boot_r2.sh

14. Wait for the process to say “SUCCESS”
15. type “reboot” and let the phone reboot
16. Download sn0wbreeze 1.6.1
17. Create custom firmware for iOS4
18. Use the Shift+Restore (on Windows) or Alt+Restore (on Mac) and point to the custom iOS4 firmware.
    NOTE: If you’re not using iTunes 9.2 at this point, an error (13) will be raised
19. After complete, use Cydia and install the same packages again (openSSH, afc2add, MobileTerminal) and add another repository: http://repo666.ultrasn0w.com
20. Find Ultrasn0w and your phone is now jailbroken and unlocked on iOS4

http://www.idroidproject.org/wiki/Installing_iDroid_(Linux)

That link is actually for a Linux, so I uses VirtualBox and a Linux (Ubuntu) image file. From there I followed most part of the guide.

However I’ll post my observation (on 2G):

• It’s running way too sluggish
• Call sometimes doesn’t work (stuck at the calling, but not really dialing)
• Phone becomes really warm and battery drain is too much
• There’s not enough button
• Overall condition is not really usable for daily use

Couple notes:

• If Wifi connects but browser not going anywhere, try the DNS fix
• All “adb” type commands require the download of SDK
• If Virtual Box can’t connect to the iPhone when doing the ‘./oibc’ portion, you may need to shut down and restart your virtual machine (including the Virtual Box itself)
• Going to Apple’s recovery mode (for upgraders) from the openiboot would require you to hold the “Menu” button after choosing the iPhone mode

Post comments for questions and help on how to install iDroid.